Licensing on early PolicyKit code

[Alan Perry]

On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> On 7/8/15 12:23 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>> I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early
>>>> PolicyKit code and David Zeuthen referred me here.
>>>>
>>>> The licensing comment reads:
>>>>
>>>> * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1
>>> Which “some code” is this exactly? The current git repo doesn’t contain the
>>> word “Academic” at all, for example.
>>>       Mirek
>> That is a good question. It seems to pre-date PolicyKit 0.3, which is
>> the earliest release that I could find searching the internet.
> Looking at PolicyKit 0.3, it does include some files using that license, but it also says
>> The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU
>> General Public License version 2.

This license comment is from a header file (libpolkit.h, the contents of 
which does not match any libpolkit.h that I have seen in a PolicyKit 
source release).
>>
>> libpolkit is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free
>> License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2.
> which seems definitive enough. Also, David is listed as the original (only?) author, so I wonder why he redirected the query elsewhere.

AFL 2.1 or GPLv2 is what the people who integrated the code thought and 
they selected AFL 2.1. Then a subsequent legal review looked at the 
actual license information in each file and found what I reported above, 
which is ambiguous.

I was hoping that, as the author, David Z. would just confirm it is AFL 
2.1 or GPLv2, but, instead, he referred me to you guys, the current 
maintainers.

alan

>      Mirek
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